Skype will not start: $ skype & skype: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.10: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 $ ldd /usr/bin/skype |grep ssl libssl.so.10 => not found OK, missing libssl. Where is it? $ ls -l /usr/lib/libssl.so* lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root ... /usr/lib/libsssl.so -> libcrypto.so.1.0.1e lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root ... /usr/lib/libssl.so.10 -> libssl.so.6 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root ... /usr/lib/libssl.so.1.0.1e lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root ... /usr/lib/libssl.so.6 -> /usr/lib64/libssl.so.10 OK, it points to libssl.so.6 which in turns points to the 64-bit version. $ ls -l /usr/lib64/libssl.so* lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root ... /usr/lib64/libssl.so.10 -> libssl.so.1.0.1e -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root ... /usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.0.1e lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root ... /usr/lib64/libssl.so.6 -> /usr/lib64/libssl.so.10 So, why is my linkchain not picked up by Skype? (Identical problem exists with libcrypto, BTW).